Hoboken police report making two more 'Flood Zone' heroin arrests

HOBOKEN -- Members of the Hoboken Vice Squad arrested two individuals in another heroin bust connected to wax bags stamped “Flood Zone,” police said yesterday.

Officers set up surveillance in the area of 301 Jackson St. Thursday, and about 10:55 a.m., police watched two people later identified as Mario Cruz and Katherine Crespo have a brief conversation before exchanging currency for a small white object, according to police reports.

Soon after, the reports say, police arrested Crespo in the area of 232 Madison St. Police reports say a search of Crespo found one wax-like bag stamped, “Flood Zone.”

Minutes later, reports say, they arrested Cruz after a short foot pursuit.

Police said Cruz was found to have a total of 76 folds of heroin stamped “Flood Zone” as well as $443.

Reports say Crespo, a 33-year-old Hoboken resident, was charged with possession of heroin. A warrant check also found four warrants from the city of Hoboken, police said.

Cruz, a 27-year old from Jersey City, was charged with selling heroin, resisting arrest, possession of heroin, possession of heroin within 1,000 feet of a school and possession of heroin within 500 feet of public housing.

The arrests come two days after three men were arrested in a heroin bust in the same area of Jackson Street. Police say the men were all found to be in possession of wax folds containing suspected heroin stamped “Flood Zone.”